Bêtty
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Bêtty is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country: 382,966 people, counted by the Census Bureau in 2020. In Burkina Faso it is the 19th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Betty (nickname for “Elizabeth”). In thieves’ cant a tool for wrenching locked doors is also called a Bess (from “Elizabeth”) or a Jenny.
- USUnited States1 in 869(measured from records)
- ECEcuador1 in 982
- SESweden1 in 3.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 335 (measured from records)
- 1 in 869 (inferred from the name graph)
382,966 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Betty in US United States, EC Ecuador, BF Burkina Faso.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From Betty (nickname for “Elizabeth”). In thieves’ cant a tool for wrenching locked doors is also called a Bess (from “Elizabeth”) or a Jenny. The “attractive woman” sense may relate to the character Betty Rubble in the cartoon The Flintstones.
Cited for this meaning 7
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Bêtty counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 382,966 | 1 in 869 | 382K | Betty | 335 |
| EC Ecuador | #177 | 17,212 | 1 in 982 | 17K | Betty | 45 |
| SE Sweden | — | 2,787 | 1 in 3.7K | 2.8K | — | 19 |
| DK Denmark | — | 1,393 | 1 in 4.2K | 1.4K | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 757 | 1 in 6.7K | 757 | — | 31 |
| BF Burkina Faso | #19 | — | — | — | Betty | 3 |
382,966 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INEC — civil registry names; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Bêtty mean, and where does it come from?
- From Betty (nickname for “Elizabeth”). In thieves’ cant a tool for wrenching locked doors is also called a Bess (from “Elizabeth”) or a Jenny. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 5 other sources.
- Is Bêtty a male or female name?
- Bêtty is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- Which countries have the most people named Bêtty?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 383 thousand people named Bêtty, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled betty. After it come Ecuador, Sweden, Denmark and Costa Rica; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Bêtty most common?
- Bêtty is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 869 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Bêtty?
- In the United States, the national register counted 382,966 people named Bêtty in 2020, about 1 in 869 residents.
- How common is Bêtty compared with other names?
- In Burkina Faso, Bêtty is the 19th most common given name of 2,590 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/b%C3%AAttyThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Bêtty” — ranked 123rd in the United States (Census Bureau, 2020). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.